Example sentences of "increased [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] few " in BNC.

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1 The number of applications based on this ground has increased alarmingly over the past few years .
2 The number of applications based on this ground has increased alarmingly over the past few years .
3 Now , our understanding of this relationship has increased dramatically over the past few years and our knowledge of new vessel formation or angiogenesis has also increased .
4 Just as the rewards for European golfers have increased dramatically over the last few years with a circuit worth nearly twenty million pounds , so have they for caddies .
5 Erm the emphasis really on that has been highlighted in the Department of Transport 's own recent consultation document earlier this year where they looked at er trans-pennine routes right from from Derbyshire up to the er the A sixty six er looking at ways to relieve the pressure on the M sixty two where traffic flows have been in have increased dramatically over the last few years .
6 Expenditure on education has increased steadily over the last few years even in ‘ real terms ’ after inflation is taken into account , as Figure 8.6 shows .
7 While the quality of play , and competition , at the top end of the women 's game has increased superbly in the last few years , the drop off after the first half dozen or so , is still equally evident .
8 These numbers have increased considerably over the past few years , partly because income support is available to help cover the fees of residential and nursing home care , and money to pay for care at home is not easily available .
9 It is difficult to see how unrepresented claimants who fare so badly in tribunals of first instance could expect to fare better at the appellate level ; indeed representation has increased considerably over the past few years .
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